Just Finished!!!!

renormalised (Carl) · #1 09-06-2010, 02:02 PM

Just finished my literature review for my subject for this semester, which was the review. It's worth 70% of my marks for this semester. I hope I've done alright!!!

10000 word limit for the review. We had to do a review on quasars, talking about the variability of quasars at whatever wavelength we chose to do it on. I did it on the optical (visual and just either side...UV and NIR) wavelengths.

I wrote 9702 words in the main body of the review....10067 if you count the references section etc.

Glad it's finished!!!

supernova1965 (Warren) · #2 09-06-2010, 02:17 PM

Contrats though I am glad it was you and not me sounds like a hard job to someone like me who isnt known for stringing too many words together without it sounding like gibberish. You will have to celebrate tonight

erick (Eric) · #3 09-06-2010, 02:40 PM

Well done, Carl! Not sure I can even spell "kwayzar"?

Octane (Humayun) · #4 09-06-2010, 02:42 PM

Congratulations, Carl.

That's pretty inspiring! I would love to go back to university one day and do an astronomy degree.

H

Robh (Rob) · #5 09-06-2010, 03:44 PM

Well done Carl and obviously a relief to be finished the 10000 word review.
My interest in astronomy and science keep me quite busy but I pick and choose my subject matter at whim and delve into whatever degree I wish. More entertainment than hard work.

Good luck to you!

Regards, Rob

Jeffkop (Jeff) · #6 09-06-2010, 03:55 PM

Hers hoping for C's or D's Carl .. you can breath now !

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #7 09-06-2010, 03:57 PM

I know I should know what you're talking about Carl so I'll just sit here nod my head knowingly.

But I do know that congratulations are in order. Well done.

You'll will let us know how you went won't you?? Please.

renormalised (Carl) · #8 09-06-2010, 04:11 PM

Thanks guys

Relief....that's for sure!!!. The amount of reading I had to do!!!!. It's very easy to get caught up in doing the work and then realise that it's early the next morning when you finally think it's time to go to bed!!!. Done that all too often in the last 5-6 weeks.

renormalised (Carl) · #9 09-06-2010, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I know I should know what you're talking about Carl so I'll just sit here nod my head knowingly.

But I do know that congratulations are in order. Well done.

You'll will let us know how you went won't you?? Please.

You can have a read of my lit review if you like

Seriously what my topic was on, was the different models that have been proposed to try and explain the variability in the light coming from quasars. Why some have these long term variations, others short term and what is the driving mechanism that creates the variability and the high luminosity of the quasars. They still haven't figured out what the mechanism is behind the variability, but they have a few ideas at what it might be. They think it might be one or more out of 4 ideas they have...

Accretion disk instabilities
Supernova cascades
Starburst episodes
Gravitational microlensing

So, you can take your pick from them. Some favour one or more over the others...just depends on what the researchers are looking for, and at, at the time.

Simple stuff

renormalised (Carl) · #10 09-06-2010, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Congratulations, Carl.

That's pretty inspiring! I would love to go back to university one day and do an astronomy degree.

H

Why don't you

You can do them externally these days...there's a number of unis both here in Oz and overseas that offer courses in astronomy.

renormalised (Carl) · #11 09-06-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by erick

Well done, Carl! Not sure I can even spell "kwayzar"?

That's probably how they should've spelt the damn word in the first place!!!.

Looks "native" when you spell it like that!!!

Just thought..."kwayzar"...great name for a nightclub!!!!

renormalised (Carl) · #12 09-06-2010, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffkop

Hers hoping for C's or D's Carl .. you can breath now !

That would be nice but I'll be just as happy with a pass

Octane (Humayun) · #13 09-06-2010, 04:55 PM

Carl,

I've got far too much on my plate at the moment!

Perhaps in the future.

H

renormalised (Carl) · #14 09-06-2010, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Carl,

I've got far too much on my plate at the moment!

Perhaps in the future.

H

Don't gorge yourself, it's not good for you

Plenty of time, hey

...any cream donuts, by chance??

AstralTraveller (David) · #15 09-06-2010, 05:31 PM

Congratulations. You won't know what to do with yourself for a while. All that free time will feel strange.

I know that 10,000 words sounds a lot but if you know your stuff - which I'm sure you do - the biggest problem is likely to have been keeping it down to the word limit. You'll need at least 1000 to state the topic and provide background. Then another 1000 or so to wrap up. That leaves only about 2000 for each hypothesis, and 2000 is about a first year undergrad essay. By third year I was regularly writing 3500 words. Honours was supposed to be 20,000 and my first draft was 30,000 without the final chapter.

So, when will it be available on line???

multiweb (Marc) · #16 09-06-2010, 05:35 PM

Good stuff! So when do you get the results?

spacezebra (Petra) · #17 09-06-2010, 05:50 PM

Good stuff Carl! Well done.

Cheers Petra d.

renormalised (Carl) · #18 09-06-2010, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

Good stuff! So when do you get the results?

Probably not for a month or two.

renormalised (Carl) · #19 09-06-2010, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by spacezebra

Good stuff Carl! Well done.

Cheers Petra d.

Thanks, Petra

renormalised (Carl) · #20 09-06-2010, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Congratulations. You won't know what to do with yourself for a while. All that free time will feel strange.

I know that 10,000 words sounds a lot but if you know your stuff - which I'm sure you do - the biggest problem is likely to have been keeping it down to the word limit. You'll need at least 1000 to state the topic and provide background. Then another 1000 or so to wrap up. That leaves only about 2000 for each hypothesis, and 2000 is about a first year undergrad essay. By third year I was regularly writing 3500 words. Honours was supposed to be 20,000 and my first draft was 30,000 without the final chapter.

So, when will it be available on line???

That was the problem, keeping it within the limit. I probably could've written half as much again, or more. The big problem is having to leave stuff out and trying not to sound too flowery. I hope I've managed to cover the topic adequately and have passed. I think my intro was 350 words, then I talked about variability in quasars as a general topic relating to optical variability, then it was the hypotheses and then a conclusion which was about 500 or so words, maybe more, but your estimate for around 2000 per hypothesis is about correct....probably give or take 500 words each, depending on how tired I was at the time